6 More Marbles!

You read that right- SIX whole marbles!!! They have not referred 6 days since last June! The realist in me must point out that the actual number of families who received referrals was about the same as it's been because these were 6 smaller days (April 6-11, 2006), so this is not a sign of a speed-up. But many of us were afraid that the CCAA was just going to refer 2 days worth of LIDs each month, regardless of the number of families that included (and thus signaling the impossibility of us ever receiving a referral), so we are just ecstatic that they seem to be going by the number of families/babies referred each month instead of sticking to just 2 days a month.

Not only did they triple the number of days referred from what they've been doing, but they also sent these referrals out only 28 days after the last batch- even though Chinese New Year was this month, so the CCAA would have been closed for at least 5 days. Even with their break, they still managed to get them out in a timely manner. All of these things are good news for those of us who are so anxiously waiting!Jar #1 now has 1,075 marbles; we are 34 days closer to Caitlin!!